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Timecop

System(s): Sega Mega-CD
Publisher: JVC Musical Industries
Developer: Cryo Interactive Entertainment
Planned release date(s): 1994-12^[1], 1995-01^[2], 1995-02^[3]^[4], 1995-03, 1995-04^[5]
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1
State before cancellation: Late in development
Status of prototype(s): Full game leaked by developer

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Timecop is an action game loosely based on the film of the same name. It was released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in early 1995.

An enhanced port for the Sega Mega-CD was also in development at one point and was reportedly completed, but cancelled at the last minute due to its publisher, JVC Musical Industries, deciding to pull support for the system. Infamously Timecop was even released to the public, albeit in demo form, alongside issue #45 of Sega Pro CD - it was originally planned for issue #40, but a reluctant JVC meant that a Mickey Mania demo disc was bundled with the magazine instead.

The Mega-CD Timecop is much the same as its Super Nintendo cousin, however features a CD audio soundtrack and added cutscenes. Though it can be presumed a PAL release was planned (for mid-1995), it is unknown whether Timecop would have been released for the Mega-CD in other regions.

The full game was released onto the internet in 2007 by its programmer, Jean Charles Meyrignac(?).

Production credits

French Team

Executive Producer: Emmanuel Forsans
Assistant Producer: Anne Devouassoux
Main Programmer: Jean Charles Meyrignac
Art Director and Introduction Programmer: Bruno Galet
Main Graphist: Yann Uhari
Additional Graphists: Sebastien Marlin, Yannick Bachelart, Elisabeth Siry, Laurent Leoru, Stephane Chatelier
Introduction Graphist: Yannick Bachelart
Cinematic Sequences: Gilles Moreau, Thierry Roger, Hubert Szymzak
Musics and Sounds: David de Gruttola
Models and Storyboard: Pascal Pinteau

Original SNES Team

Main Programmer: Fabien Fessard
Additional Programmer: Jean Charles Meyrignac, Pierre Eric Loriaux
Main Graphic Artist: Michel Rho
Graphic Artists: Oliver Venet, Hubert Szymzak, Thierry Roger
Music and Sounds: David de Gruttola from Totem Factory
Photograph: Patrice Forsans

Staff in Japan: Takeshi Minigawa, Kenji Ono, Yoshinobu Funaoka
Many Thanks To: Makoto Orii, Masayoshi Zaitsu, Gavin White, Toshiyuki Nagai, Gaku Sato, All the JVC staff, All the Cryo staff

Artwork

US front cover

Magazine articles

Main article: Timecop/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #70: "May 1995" (1995-0x-xx)

References

[:File:MegaPower_UK_16.pdf_p6-1] Mega Power, "November 1994" (UK; 1994-10-20), page 6

[:File:GamePlayers_US_0711.pdf_p28-2] Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 11 November 1994" (US; 1994-1x-xx), page 28

[:File:GamePlayers_US_0803.pdf_p10-3] Game Players, "Vol. 8 No. 3 March 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 10

[:File:VideoGames_US_73.pdf_p54-4] VideoGames, "February 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 54

[:File:MeanMachinesSega31UK.pdf_p30-5] Mean Machines Sega, "May 1995" (UK; 1995-03-28), page 30

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